Prologue 1

The housemother who found Giselle McKendrick hanging from the brass light fixture in her bedroom didn't scream When she entered the room on the second floor of Nightingale Hall,an off-campus dormitory at Salem University,and found Giselle suspended,swaying gently above the shiny hardwood floor,Isobel Coates's mouth opened in horror but she made no sound.

For several minutes,the only sound in the bright and sunny room came from the birds outside, screeching in the huge oak trees shadowing the tall, skinny,old brick house.Sheer white curtains at the narrow windows move gently, ghostlike, stirred by a warm June breeze.

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